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Alex Padilla, US Senator from California, is a vocal advocate for mental health reform, with a modest net worth and a long-standing career in public service shaped by his family's immigrant roots.

With styling inspired by 1930s Streamliner cars and an all-natural interior, Dacora wants to take on the biggest names in the luxury car business.

A new machine learning model shows that star-shaped brain cells may be responsible for the brain's memory capacity, and someday, it could inspire advances in AI and Alzheimer's research.

The MIT professor helped shape the foundations of New Keynesian economics and influenced generations of economists and policymakers

Stephen A. Smith mistakenly slammed Brittney Griner over a fake quote from a parody account. The incident highlights how quickly misinformation spreads online — and why digital literacy matters more than ever.

During the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong pushed for the closure of Chinese universities, seeing higher education as little more than a breeding ground for counterrevolutionary bourgeois intellectuals. After closing for a period, China’s universities reopened on a limited basis from 1970, with selection criteria based on class background, revolutionary…

Megha Vemuri gave speech the day before commencement, condemning the university’s ties to Israel

MIT's 2025 class president and her family were banned from the university's graduation ceremony after she spoke against the university's complicity in Israel's genocide of Palestinian people.

First theorized in 1938, heat's wave-like flow through superfluids, known as "second sound", has proven difficult to directly observe. Now, a new technique has finally done it, and could be used to study neutron stars and high-temperature superconductors.

U.S. competitiveness has always depended on its universities' openness to talent and commitment to research.

Gibson wielder, who always preferred Marshall to Scholz’s Rockman brand, recalls being edged out but not caring at first, until it led to an angry split and legal repercussions